Love for Peace

Haris Adhikari (Nepal)

I am

in love with Peace!

but she’s not in love with me.

Who else or what else

is not?

This culture of

camouflage that I’m part of,

I detest it.

This part of the world that did not listen to me,

that I did not listen to.

These hollow

cores of culture, fruits of maladies.

Ring of pollution. Depletion of

moral layers.

Is it the decadence of

religions? Masquerades

of terrorism? Dramatizations

of dirty politics? Abductions of

Truth and Love?

Or this

Villain Time … This Villain Time

that is mad for Power—Power of Victory—

so mad

that it forcibly corners

and then

commits a brutal rape of Innocence—if it doesn’t get

what it wants …

Or is it

the Providence of Divine Grace?

The Providence that just

looks on (enjoying?)

the agonies and cries

of so many poor beings …

like me.

Courtesy of the poet.

Haris Adhikari can be reached at:

harisadhikari@gmail.com